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This chapter examines a number of concepts that are used in arguments against taking animals seriously. The chapter explores how difficult it is to say what behaviors are natural and looks at the multiple meanings of "species" and "human" and "person." The chapter also discusses the problems with familiar hierarchies of worth and explores some of the tensions that have developed between animal liberation and disability activists.
Information Ethics (IE) has come to mean different things to different researchers working in a variety of disciplines, including computer ethics, business ethics, medical ethics, computer science and information science. The chapter explores what IE is and what counts as a moral agent and moral patient according to IE. It questions our responsibilities as moral agents, according to IE and the fundamental principles of IE. The resource-product-target (RPT) model, summarized in this chapter, helps one to get some initial orientation in the multiplicity of issues belonging to different interpretations of IE. The chapter also gives an overview of Information Ethics understood as a macroethics. Since the early nineties, when the author first introduced IE as an environmental macroethics and a foundationalist approach to computer ethics, some standard objections have circulated that seem to be based on a few basic misunderstandings.
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